image of object
From: Nancy Goyne Evans, "The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America," American Furniture 1998: 103
Click the image to enlarge

Slat-back Windsor side chair

Object number

RIF1245

Maker

Maker Christian Michael Nestell, 1793?1880; worked 1820?1836

Date

1825–35

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Marks

Stencilled maker identification on underside of seat

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Mrs. John S. Banta, 1969

Associated names

Mrs. John S. Banta

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, "The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America," American Furniture (1998): 103, fig. 7.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 399n4.